
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Champaign County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 179,669 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 73,433 | 100.0 | Native | 165,280 | 92.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,307 | 4.5 | Born in United States | 163,885 | 91.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,082 | 2.8 | State of residence | 121,163 | 67.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 17,177 | 23.4 | Different state | 42,722 | 23.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,154 | 11.1 | Born outside United States | 1,395 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 42,713 | 58.2 | Foreign born | 14,389 | 8.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9,042 | 5.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,936 | 2.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 100,559 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 10,453 | 5.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,149 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,923 | 5.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 24,376 | 24.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 14,389 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 21,698 | 21.6 | Europe | 2,691 | 18.7 | |
| Associate degree | 7,211 | 7.2 | Asia | 8,427 | 58.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 18,731 | 18.6 | Africa | 650 | 4.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 19,471 | 19.4 | Oceania | 151 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,970 | 13.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 91.0 | (X) | Northern America | 500 | 3.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 38.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 169,301 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 148,144 | 100.0 | English only | 149,387 | 88.2 | |
| Never married | 59,527 | 40.2 | Language other than English | 19,914 | 11.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 67,643 | 45.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,793 | 4.0 | |
| Separated | 1,994 | 1.3 | Spanish | 4,913 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 6,748 | 4.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,807 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 5,642 | 3.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 5,817 | 3.4 | |
| Divorced | 12,232 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,116 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 7,082 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7,994 | 4.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,470 | 2.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 179,669 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,589 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 192,618 | 107.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 951 | 59.8 | Arab | 714 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,198 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 868 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 141,730 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,152 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 13,538 | 9.6 | English | 19,995 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,740 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 843 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 46,475 | 25.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 48,687 | 100.0 | Greek | 739 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,662 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 733 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 102,285 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 23,020 | 12.8 | |
| With a disability | 11,621 | 11.4 | Italian | 6,078 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 63.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 708 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 90,664 | 88.6 | Norwegian | 2,782 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 5,881 | 3.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 16,721 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 304 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,683 | 40.0 | Russian | 1,624 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,901 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,404 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 337 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 169,301 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,517 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 71,919 | 42.5 | Swedish | 4,151 | 2.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 90,469 | 53.4 | Swiss | 891 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 40,605 | 24.0 | Ukrainian | 415 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 49,864 | 29.5 | United States or American | 10,644 | 5.9 | |
| Same state | 35,411 | 20.9 | Welsh | 1,303 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 14,453 | 8.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 223 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,913 | 4.1 | Other ancestries | 46,978 | 26.1 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

